Developmental Pathways v. Ritter’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Qwest Services Corp. v. Blood (2011), Kerr v. Hickenlooper (2014)
1 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Blanchette v. Connecticut General Insurance Corporations · Romer Governor of Colorado v. Evans · Leila Jeanne Hill Audrey Himmelmann Everitt Simpsons v. Colorado · Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Assn. · Oklahoma v. New Mexico
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he conduct of public officers, members of the general assembly, local government officials, and government employees must hold the respect and confidence of the people”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The practical effect of holding a statute unconstitutional as applied is to prevent its future application in a similar context, but not to render it utterly inoperative.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“avoid conduct that is in violation of [that] public trust or that creates a justifiable impression among [the public] that such trust is being violated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.